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TAXING BONDS
Editor Day Book At a banquet re
cently Ass't State's Att'y Walker
asked us for a reason why bonds
should not be taxed. A bond is a
mortgage on tangible property that is
already taxed. A tax on a bond is sec
ond tax on the same value. A bond
proves money borrowed to aid indus
try; a tax must raise the rate of in
terest, restrict borrowing and enter
prise. For bonds already issued the
tax would unjustly take some of the
normal earnings of capital. C. F.
Hunt, 530 Aldine av.
A MAN'S NARROW ESCAPE
Editor Day Book I would like to
say something to protect the good
name of inoffensive citizens against
this modesty uprising. Does not a
woman place herself on an equality
with a man when she boards a street
car or I should say a hanger-on? It's
a poor place for a man to bow and
scrape to the opposite sex.
However, he bows and scrapes, but
not with his consent. He pushes
knees with all classes of females.
Should the street cars furnish sep
arate hangers-on, or straps for wom
en, or should the men be forced to
walk?
I say walk, brutes. An old woman
was heard to say that she had lived
a life of experiences and that she had
her first time yet to be approached
by a man without she gave him en
couragement, and that she feared no
sober man. I narrowly escaped be-
ing pinched the other day. While
putting on my overcoat preparatory
to leaving a car I came in contact,
with a young girl who claimed that I,
tried to squeeze her, which was farth-,
est from my mind. E. D. ,
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LIEUT GALLERY TELLS ABOUT SOME POLICE.
METHODS THAT AREN'T "THIRD DEGREE"
In writing a letter to The Day
Book in defense of the police, Lieut.
M. J. Gallery, in command at Rogers
Park station, has written a corking
good story. Here it is:
Editor Day Book In a recent Day
Book, under the heading "One Man's
Opinions" which are always good
to read I found The Day Book
for once read like the other news
papers, in that it used the words "the
Chicago police force" and the "po
lice," etc., in speaking of "illegal ar
rests," "false imprisonments" and
the "third degree." Men who know
ingly make false arrests, who falsely
imprison men and who practice the
so-called "third degree" should not
be on the force. That ib, if the "third
degree' is more than a severe ques
tioning and cross-questioning of a
man believed to be guilty of a serious
offense against society. ,
There are thousands of men on the
Chicago police force who have never
used the so-called "third degree" in
their life. In fact, there are not
twenty men in the Chicago police,
force who bulldoze or browbeat, orj
give the "third degree" to a prisoner
and further, the man that does iSj
scorned and despised by the rest,
of us. 4
This is a fact, an absolute fact,,
a God's fact, and, personally, I woulct!
not shake the hand of the man the
bruite, I mean who would go into
a cell and beat up a defenseless hu-j
man being a dog, even and there
are thousands of men on the force
who feel as I do. Therefore, all of uSj
should not be classed as "third de-
gree men," as making "illegal ar-j
rests," etc.
We had some mighty tough cases,,
and some "almighty" tough prisoners
at Desplaines st. station while I was
there. I'll mention a few that were
brought in during my watch: Clar-
ence White was arrested and booked
twice during my time there. Once
for murder and the other time for7
conspiracy to kill by blowing up
with dynamite my friend, Pat Fla-
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